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A woman was struck and killed Sunday evening by an eastbound Amtrak train in Fairfield.The accident occurred about 5:45 p.m. on track 4 near the Unquowa Road train station in Fairfield. Police said the unidentified woman was attempting to cross the tracks...

NEW YORK (AP) — The fiery collision between a commuter train and an SUV that killed six people in the New York City suburbs cost the railroad about $3.7 million in damage, federal investigators said in a preliminary report released Monday.
The National...

HARTFORD — Legislators maneuver every year to land more highway funds for their home districts, but this winter they're also targeting money for a different purpose: Passenger trains.Towns from the northwest hills, northern Fairfield County, eastern...

Pity the pun. Spurned as the lowest and dullest form of wit, the pun elicits groans not giggles.
Charles Lamb called the pun "a pistol let off at the ear." Ambrose Bierce defined the pun as "a form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools...

NEW YORK— The government should spend more money safeguarding railroad crossings that are "accidents waiting to happen," two U.S. senators said Sunday. Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., spoke at New York's Grand...

HARTFORD — Despite continuing frustration by some commuters and many Fairfield County lawmakers, the state can't simply replace Metro-North as its commuter train operator, state Transportation Commissioner James Redeker said Wednesday.
"The New...

Once again, we find ourselves entertaining a variety of unsolicited opinions on how best to respond to the latest Metro-North accident, while our politicians embark on the ever in-vogue trend of beating up on the railroads. I'd like to offer a fairly...

Saying it ignores vital safety issues, U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District., on Friday criticized the draft of a passenger rail bill that a Congressional committee issued this week.
The proposal came out just two days after a Metro-North crash in...

Within hours of the tragic Metro-North crash in Valhalla, N.Y., the omnipresent Sen. Richard Blumenthal was proffering his usual blather about the safety deficiencies of Metro-North before even the most basic facts had been determined. This kind of...

Sen. Dick Blumenthal should apologize to Metro-North for lambasting them the other day regarding the train vs. car accident. He opened his mouth before the facts were presented, blaming Metro-North for the accident.
It was a tragedy indeed, but...

VALHALLA, N.Y. (AP) - It was a hellish scenario investigators had never seen before: 400 feet of electrified third rail snapped into 12 pieces and speared a commuter train during a fiery collision with an SUV. Now officials want to know whether the rail's...

Following the Metro-North wreck in Valhalla, N.Y., that killed six people, a congressman from New York is proposing that the federal government spend $400 million over the next four years to redesign some high-volume railroad grade crossings.
Rep. Sean...

It's imperative that the federal agencies investigating Tuesday's fiery fatal crash of a Metro-North commuter train find the cause as soon as possible.Public confidence in the nation's second busiest commuter rail line is teetering from this crash, as...

As federal agencies investigate exactly how five passengers were killed in a fast-moving fire on a Metro-North train Tuesday in Valhalla, N.Y., Connecticut lawmakers are looking for ways to be sure that no similar calamity could occur on the railroad's...

Connecticut legislators expressed concerns Wednesday about the fatal Metro-North Commuter Railroad crash in Valhalla, N.Y., saying they need to take steps to make sure it never happens again.
While Metro-North has had a series of major accidents and...

VALHALLA, N.Y. (AP) — A crowded commuter train slammed into a sport utility vehicle on the tracks at a suburban New York crossing and burst into flames, killing seven people and seriously injuring nearly a dozen in the railroad's deadliest crash,...

A new federal report from the investigation into Metro-North's 2013 derailment in Bridgeport concludes that bolts on the railroad's brand-new M-8 cars are too weak.
The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that Metro-North replace...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two Metro-North derailments in New York have renewed concerns among federal regulators over the commuter railroad's focus on safety.
No one was injured after trains left the tracks at Grand Central Terminal and White Plains, New...

A minor derailment at Grand Central Terminal delayed Metro-North's New Haven Line costumers coming in and going out, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority.MTA said about 8 p.m. the delays were about five to 10 minutes because of congestion...

While the year’s biggest storm was subsiding, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was making moves to return the state almost back to normal on Wednesday – including returning all state employees to work Wednesday.
The state Capitol was eerily quiet Tuesday with...